Platform Engineering Lead

Below are the details of the position: Platform Engineering Lead Location: Bromley, UK Job Description: Required Skills: * 20+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability. * 7+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions * Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain. * Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle) * Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale. * Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform. * Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions. * Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka. * Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools). * Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions * Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team * Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience